"cattail" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈkæt.teɪl/ Forms: cattails [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English cattal, cattyle (also as cattestail), equivalent to cat + tail. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|cattal}} Middle English cattal, {{com|en|cat|tail}} cat + tail Head templates: {{en-noun}} cattail (plural cattails)
  1. Any of several perennial herbs, of the genus Typha, that have long flat leaves, and grow in marshy places. Categories (lifeform): Commelinids, Water plants Synonyms (herb in Typha): bulrush, reedmace Translations (any of several perennial herbs of the genus Typha): τύφη (túphē) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), بُرْدِيّ (burdiyy) [masculine] (Arabic), ҡамыш (qamış) (Bashkir), lezka (Basque), bova [feminine] (Catalan), balca [feminine] (Catalan), orobinec [masculine] (Czech), lisdodde [feminine] (Dutch), kodde [feminine] (Dutch), tifao (Esperanto), hundinui (Estonian), dúnkylva [feminine] (Faroese), osmankäämi (Finnish), massette [feminine] (French), quenouille [feminine] (French), espadana [feminine] (Galician), Rohrkolben [masculine] (German), Kolbenschilf [masculine] (German), סוּף (suf) [masculine] (Hebrew), gyékény (Hungarian), stiancia [feminine] (Italian), tifa [feminine] (Italian), popas (Klamath-Modoc), 부들 (budeul) (Korean), buda [feminine] (Latin), ulva [feminine] (Latin), ʔulal (Lushootseed), teeł (Navajo), dunkjevle [masculine, neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), dunkjevle [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), pałka [feminine] (Polish), tifa [feminine] (Portuguese), papură [feminine] (Romanian), рого́з (rogóz) [masculine] (Russian), rogoz [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), espadaña [feminine] (Spanish), kaveldun [neuter] (Swedish), cynffon y gath [feminine] (Welsh)
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  2. A cat-o'-nine-tails.
    Sense id: en-cattail-en-noun-133sksRN
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: catstail

Inflected forms

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    "Terms with Lushootseed translations",
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    "Terms with Polish translations",
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    "Terms with Spanish translations",
    "Terms with Swedish translations",
    "Terms with Welsh translations",
    "en:Commelinids",
    "en:Water plants"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "cattal"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English cattal",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "cat",
        "3": "tail"
      },
      "expansion": "cat + tail",
      "name": "com"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English cattal, cattyle (also as cattestail), equivalent to cat + tail.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cattails",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "cattail (plural cattails)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "catstail"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Any of several perennial herbs, of the genus Typha, that have long flat leaves, and grow in marshy places."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "perennial",
          "perennial"
        ],
        [
          "herb",
          "herb"
        ],
        [
          "Typha",
          "Typha#Translingual"
        ],
        [
          "marshy",
          "marshy"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A cat-o'-nine-tails."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "cat-o'-nine-tails",
          "cat-o'-nine-tails"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkæt.teɪl/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "herb in Typha",
      "word": "bulrush"
    },
    {
      "sense": "herb in Typha",
      "word": "reedmace"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "burdiyy",
      "sense": "any of several perennial herbs of the genus Typha",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "بُرْدِيّ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ba",
      "lang": "Bashkir",
      "roman": "qamış",
      "sense": "any of several perennial herbs of the genus Typha",
      "word": "ҡамыш"
    },
    {
      "code": "eu",
      "lang": "Basque",
      "sense": "any of several perennial herbs of the genus Typha",
      "word": "lezka"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "any of several perennial herbs of the genus Typha",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "bova"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "any of several perennial herbs of the genus Typha",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "balca"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "any of several perennial herbs of the genus Typha",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "orobinec"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "any of several perennial herbs of the genus Typha",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "lisdodde"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "any of several perennial herbs of the genus Typha",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "kodde"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "any of several perennial herbs of the genus Typha",
      "word": "tifao"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "any of several perennial herbs of the genus Typha",
      "word": "hundinui"
    },
    {
      "code": "fo",
      "lang": "Faroese",
      "sense": "any of several perennial herbs of the genus Typha",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "dúnkylva"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "any of several perennial herbs of the genus Typha",
      "word": "osmankäämi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "any of several perennial herbs of the genus Typha",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "massette"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "any of several perennial herbs of the genus Typha",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "quenouille"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "any of several perennial herbs of the genus Typha",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "espadana"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "any of several perennial herbs of the genus Typha",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Rohrkolben"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "any of several perennial herbs of the genus Typha",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Kolbenschilf"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "túphē",
      "sense": "any of several perennial herbs of the genus Typha",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "τύφη"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "suf",
      "sense": "any of several perennial herbs of the genus Typha",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "סוּף"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "any of several perennial herbs of the genus Typha",
      "word": "gyékény"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "any of several perennial herbs of the genus Typha",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "stiancia"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "any of several perennial herbs of the genus Typha",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "tifa"
    },
    {
      "code": "kla",
      "lang": "Klamath-Modoc",
      "sense": "any of several perennial herbs of the genus Typha",
      "word": "popas"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "budeul",
      "sense": "any of several perennial herbs of the genus Typha",
      "word": "부들"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "any of several perennial herbs of the genus Typha",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "buda"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "any of several perennial herbs of the genus Typha",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ulva"
    },
    {
      "code": "lut",
      "lang": "Lushootseed",
      "sense": "any of several perennial herbs of the genus Typha",
      "word": "ʔulal"
    },
    {
      "code": "nv",
      "lang": "Navajo",
      "sense": "any of several perennial herbs of the genus Typha",
      "word": "teeł"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "any of several perennial herbs of the genus Typha",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "dunkjevle"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "any of several perennial herbs of the genus Typha",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "dunkjevle"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "any of several perennial herbs of the genus Typha",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pałka"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "any of several perennial herbs of the genus Typha",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "tifa"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "any of several perennial herbs of the genus Typha",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "papură"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "rogóz",
      "sense": "any of several perennial herbs of the genus Typha",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "рого́з"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "any of several perennial herbs of the genus Typha",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "rogoz"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "any of several perennial herbs of the genus Typha",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "espadaña"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "any of several perennial herbs of the genus Typha",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "kaveldun"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "any of several perennial herbs of the genus Typha",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "cynffon y gath"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "cattail"
  ],
  "word": "cattail"
}

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